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I finished A Player of Games. As I wrote earlier, the beginning is really slow and made me pause for a while to read other books. After about a third it clicked and the last third I read in one go. It is still not as good as the Wasp Factory, but much better than the first Culture novel. Now I'm reading Use of Weapons, which has a different tone than the previous book and a much better start (i.e. not boring).